| Slightly Dangerous | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles Buster Keaton (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by | Charles Lederer George Oppenheimer |
| Story by | Aileen Hamilton |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | Lana Turner Robert Young |
| Cinematography | Harold Rosson |
| Edited by | Frank E. Hull |
| Music by | Bronislau Kaper |
| Production company | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 94–95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $918,000 |
| Box office | $2,465,000 |
Slightly Dangerous is a 1943 American romantic comedy film starring Lana Turner and Robert Young. The screenplay concerns a bored young woman in a dead-end job who runs away to New York City and ends up impersonating the long-lost daughter of a millionaire. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Charles Lederer and George Oppenheimer from a story by Aileen Hamilton. According to Turner Classic Movies film historian Robert Osborne, one sequence early in the film – in which Lana Turner's character does her job at the soda fountain while blindfolded – was actually directed by an uncredited Buster Keaton.
Plot
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be suicidal, and heads for New York where she gets a make over. A new outfit, a new look and an freak accident gets her in the paper as a amnesia victim, just because she does not want to be Peggy Evans any more. The paper thinks she may be an heiress so she searches for a few clues from back issues of the paper and finds that Carol Burden was never found. Cornelius Burden, however, has sent dozens of frauds to jail already and she must trick him and Baba to keep out of jail. Next, she must stop her old manager, Bob Stuart, from spilling the beans about her.
Cast
- Lana Turner as Peggy Evans / "Carol Burden"
- Robert Young as Bob Stuart
- Walter Brennan as Cornelius Burden
- Dame May Whitty as Baba
- Eugene Pallette as Durstin
- Alan Mowbray as an English gentleman
- Florence Bates as Mrs. Amanda Roanoke-Brooke
- Howard Freeman as Mr. Quill
- Millard Mitchell as Baldwin
- Ward Bond as Jimmy
- Pamela Blake as Mitzi
- Ray Collins as Snodgrass
- Gordon Richards as Garrett, the Butler
- Emory Parnell as Policeman
- Robert Blake as Boy on Porch (uncredited)
Box office
According to MGM records the film earned $1,579,000 in the US and Canada and $672,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $4,776,000.
References
- ^ Slightly Dangerous at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- "Top Grossers of the Season", Variety, 5 January 1944 p 54
External links
- Slightly Dangerous at IMDb
- Slightly Dangerous at the TCM Movie Database
- Slightly Dangerous at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- 1943 films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
- 1943 romantic comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films with screenplays by Charles Lederer
- Films scored by Bronisław Kaper
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s American films
- English-language romantic comedy films